 So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, The infant Church ; of love she felt the tide Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave. And then she smiled, and in the Catacombs, With eye suffused but heart inspired true, On those walls subterranean,...  Eastward-ho! - Page 4491885Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...the sheep, the goats he doth not save ! So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried : " Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave, " Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave ! " So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, The infant Church;... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1868 - 356 pages
...the sheep ; the goats he doth not save ! So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried : " Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave, Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave ! " So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, The infant Church:... | |
 | 1874 - 686 pages
...the goats he does not save ! •*-•*- So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried, " Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave ! " So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, The infant Church... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 pages
...touching poems. " ' He saves the sheep — the goats he doth not save ; * So spoke the fierce TtTtul,ian. But she sigh'd— The infant Church ; of love she felt the tide Stream on her from her Ix,rd's yet recent grave ; And then she smil'd, and in the catacomb With eye suffused, but heart inspired... | |
 | 1914 - 540 pages
...Johannine writings. But there is something still more deeply interfused, an inspiration, a memory : ' The infant Church ! of love she felt the tide Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave.' There have been other times and places where a worldworn art has been renewed by salutary crossing... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...the sheep, the goats he doth not save !* So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried, — "Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave !* So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, The infant Church,... | |
 | Herbert Branston Gray - 1883 - 292 pages
...the sheep, the goats he doth not save ; ' So rang Tertullian's sentence on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried, ' Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave." So spake the fierce Tertullian ; but she sighed, The infant Church.... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1883 - 396 pages
...the sheep, the goats He doth not save.' So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried : ' Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave, Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave.' — So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sigh'd, The infant Church... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1884 - 428 pages
...sheep, the goats he doth not save : " So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried, — " Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave." So spake the fierce Tertuilian. But she sighed, The infant Church ;... | |
 | Lewis George Janes - 1884 - 334 pages
...'"He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save' ; So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sighed, The infant Church. Of love she felt the tide Stream on her from the Lord's yet recent grave, And then she smiled, and in the Catacombs, With eye suffused, but heart... | |
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